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- Title
Advancing Newborn Screening Long-Term Follow-Up: Integration of Epic -Based Registries, Dashboards, and Efficient Workflows.
- Authors
Raboin, Katherine; Ellis, Debra; Nichols, Ginger; Hughes, Marcia; Brimacombe, Michael; Rubin, Karen
- Abstract
The Connecticut Newborn Screening (NBS) Network, in partnership with the Connecticut Department of Public Health, strategically utilized the Epic electronic health record (EHR) system to establish registries for tracking long-term follow-up (LTFU) of NBS patients. After launching the LTFU registry in 2019, the Network obtained funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration to address the slow adoption by specialty care teams. An LTFU model was implemented in the three highest-volume specialty care teams at Connecticut Children's, involving an early childhood cohort diagnosed with an NBS-identified disorder since the formation of the Network in March 2019. This cohort grew from 87 to 115 over the two-year project. Methods included optimizing registries, capturing external data from Health Information Exchanges, incorporating evidence-based guidelines, and conducting qualitative and quantitative evaluations. The early childhood cohort demonstrated significant and sustainable improvements in the percentage of visits up-to-date (%UTD) compared to the non-intervention legacy cohort of patients diagnosed with an NBS disorder before the formation of the Network. Positive trends in the early childhood cohort, including %UTD for visits and condition-specific performance metrics, were observed. The qualitative evaluation highlighted the achievability of practice behavior changes for specialty care teams through responsive support from the nurse analyst. The Network's model serves as a use case for applying and achieving the adoption of population health tools within an EHR system to track care delivery and quickly fill identified care gaps, with the aim of improving long-term health for NBS patients.
- Subjects
CONNECTICUT; NEWBORN screening; DASHBOARDS (Management information systems); DOCUMENTATION; ENDOCRINOLOGY; MEDICAL quality control; RESEARCH funding; INTERVIEWING; REPORTING of diseases; CONTINUUM of care; QUANTITATIVE research; CHI-squared test; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MANN Whitney U Test; TIME series analysis; WORKFLOW; HEMATOLOGY; ELECTRONIC health records; MEDICAL appointments; QUALITY assurance; EVIDENCE-based medicine; PATIENT aftercare; HEALTH care teams; GENETICS
- Publication
International Journal of Neonatal Screening (IJNS), 2024, Vol 10, Issue 2, p27
- ISSN
2409-515X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijns10020027